A marinated-in-vodka high school English teacher (Clive Owen) and an imperious art instructor (Juliette Binoche) suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (has Hollywood finally run out of quality diseases to exploit?) are almost done in by Gerald Di Pego’s (Phenomenon) gabby script — one of the worst scripts top-shelf director Fred Schepisi …
Is Akikazu Fujishima (Kôji Yakusho, contributing many a fine George C. Scott–worthy eruption) a dilapidated blackguard guilty of the triple homicide police are questioning him about? Or is he an on-the-ropes former cop about to embark on an ultraviolent journey through hell to save an estranged teenage daughter (and maybe …
After an opening that feels like a chunky blend of The Matrix, Terminator 2, and even Thor (hello, Destroyer!), Bryan Singer's return to the world of "Mutants are people too, only better" settles into a '70s-style actor's showcase. To wit: Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, musclebound and muted; James McAvoy's Charles Xavier, …
'Bout time we started getting some drought-themed anxiety cinema, wouldn't you say?
Fashion! Fashion! Fashion! Story of the famed designer. From the trailer: "If I cannot express myself, I will die." Well then.
Valued social commentary can only be created by those assiduously invested with a strong predilection towards truth and enlightenment. Female soldiers stationed at a remote Israeli base find war a bore in this feminist service comedy that aspires to a modern day Mr. Roberts while barely generating enough material to …
The Zero Theorem runs in a counter-parallel universe to Terry Gilliam’s masterwork, Brazil, a film he’s dedicated a career to remaking. Qohen (Christoph Waltz) is assigned the task of solving the titular hypothesis, an equation that by its very nature – everything adds up to nothing – is impossible to …